Chapter 15: Projects with little hope

"Are you alright?

Zhao Xin stood there and walked slowly in the direction where Su Beidou was.

Sometimes she is bored, and occasionally goes out for a walk, and it is her own choice to stay on Mars to take care of the child, because there is a reason why she must stay, so she will not feel distressed like her son Su Beidou.

On Mars, even if you exercise muscles, you will gradually atrophy, and your body functions are far less than on Earth, and correspondingly, the physiological burden will be weakened, which has both advantages and disadvantages.

has lived on Mars for more than six years, and according to the weight of the earth, his mother Zhao Xin's weight is now less than ninety-five pounds, which is more than 16 pounds thinner than when she left the earth.

Wearing a spacesuit, the weight was too heavy, and after walking a little far, a layer of sweat appeared on his body.

Su Beidou didn't think about these problems, and at the moment he was still immersed in the joy of leaving the base, trotting, walking, and looking around from time to time.

After hearing my mother's inquiry, I replied, "Great! I'm fine, now how about getting in the car and going further afield? I want to run out of oxygen and come back!"

"Okay, then you can wait for me by the car first......"

A few minutes later.

The mother and son sat in the car and set their destination more than 200 kilometers away, ready to go to the freshwater collection point for a spin and then return along the same route.

Inside the sealed car, they took off their hoods when the oxygen was replenished.

Human beings have harsh requirements for the living environment, and considering the resources carried by spacesuits, it is definitely not possible to survive for a long time by relying on a piece of clothing.

These special carts sent to Mars are nine meters long and more than five meters wide, and can accommodate an adult of one meter nine to walk upright in it.

The distance between going out for the first time is not short, this is the result of Su Beidou's soft grinding and hard bubbles, originally he also wanted to see his father Su Baichuan and them, but the distance is a bit far, more than 600 kilometers, and it takes about ten hours to go back and forth.

After actually coming to Mars, people found that there is not a lot of water resources under the earth's surface, but most of them exist in solid form, even in liquid form, and they are not directly used like the other side of the earth.

Su Beidou was not interested in the machine that processed and filtered clean water, and simply enjoyed the feeling of being on the road, and the living space suddenly became much larger, looking at the dark red hills, and also seeing the stones that had not been smoothed by the wind and sand.

It just so happened that a lot of water was sold to the Bald Eagle base before, and the mother and son also had a task to do, and they were ready to transport some water by the way when they returned......

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With the first time, there is a second time, I have experienced the sky and the earth outside, and Su Beidou wants to run out whenever he has the opportunity, and even plans to go to prospecting with his father and come back after living outside for a while.

He himself is trying to become stronger, and there are people on the other side of the earth who are also busy trying to figure out a solution, but unfortunately there is no safe solution for the time being.

I don't know how long I'll have to stay on Mars, it's normal to want to go out and walk.

The days are the same as usual, every day is about the same, exercising, reading books, watching videos, chatting with my mother, helping with things like cleaning, and helping Chen Dafeng by the way.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Baichuan's team finally returned, because the search range was constantly expanding, and the time they spent on the road was getting longer and longer, and as they continued to go deeper, the possibility of finding natural superconductor ore was decreasing.

Even the most optimistic people can't give an accurate answer to whether there are natural superconductor minerals on Mars, and even until now, even what kind of environment can produce superconductor minerals is not clear.

To be honest, he, the core member of the Su family, began to feel unreliable, not to mention the people on the other side of the earth who were watching the excitement.

In recent years, the stock price of Ares Mars Exploration has been falling, and if it were not supported by advertising, launching, technology licensing and other businesses, which could make up for the shortfall caused by some projects, its performance in the securities trading market would definitely be even worse.

Su Baichuan, who doesn't care about money, doesn't pay attention to this, and the reason why he is anxious recently is that with the increasingly tight capital chain, maybe in a few years, the God of War base will be idle and unable to continue to support the search for natural superconductors.

In this way, he may not be able to see the "future world" that he has dreamed of since he was a child, the development of science and technology on the other side of the earth has almost stagnated, and it has reached a certain bottleneck period, and new materials and new resources are urgently needed.

When Su Baichuan, who had been out for nearly a month and a half, saw his son, Su Beidou was holding a metal tray in his hand with a lump of dirt in it.

I couldn't figure out what I was doing, so I asked curiously, "What are you doing, son?"

"Uncle Chen taught me how to cook, with two rats in it, wrapped the meat in the leaves, and it was already baked, and the name of the dish was called chipmunk. ”

Su Beidou replied seriously.

"Hey...... Lao Chen, that guy, was reluctant to give you a chicken to eat, so he actually sent you away with a guinea pig, find a place to eat by yourself, and I will find a chicken to accompany you to do it again tomorrow. ”

In fact, he doesn't know how to cook, but this does not prevent Su Baichuan from slapping his swollen face and becoming fat in front of his baby son.

After coming to Mars for a long time, it is difficult to get fat, not only Zhao Xin has become thinner, Su Baichuan has also lost so much weight that his cheeks are sunken, and he looks several years old, but his spirit is not bad, and he has not brought the negative emotions of his time in the wild to his home.

Su Beidou went to look for something and wanted to break the mud that was roasted, so he went to take a bath, and when he came back, there were only bones left on the leaves.

Aside from the discomfort of appearance, in fact, rat meat tastes very good, the nutritional value is also high, and more importantly, it is easy to raise.

Lying on his bed reading a book, he was thinking about asking his father if he could go out with him, when Zhao Xin, who was his mother, came and asked, "How about going out this time, there are still no clues?"

"No, I'm still sticking to my old idea, and I'm going to speed up and rummage through the deep ditch where the asteroid has grazed again, and it's better to hope for our team to pass than to crash around.

Maybe I guessed wrong, the key is that it is unlikely to go back at this time, fortunately we didn't find it, and the people from the other three Mars bases didn't find it, otherwise it would be aggrieved, and people's hearts began to be impetuous, including me, it didn't get any better, I heard that the Bald Eagle base may also be taken over by private forces, and the goal is not to search for superconductor ore. Aggrieved, I don't want others to find it, but I also hope that others can find it, it's better than a void in the end, it annoys me. ”

Su Beidou heard his father's words, but he didn't hear them, because he didn't think he could help anything in this kind of thing......